With a debut Palestinian author topping the bestselling books list, and eight of the top ten bestselling books having been written by women, the Book Festival’s most diverse public programme comes to a close today after 17 days of extraordinary debate, discussion and public engagement with authors and audiences from around the world and across the political and cultural spectrum…

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In 2014 DeRay Mckesson quit his job and moved to Ferguson, Missouri to protest against the police shooting of Michael Brown Jr, an unarmed African-American teenager. He spent the next 400 days on the streets as an activist and helped bring the Black Lives Matter movement into existence. Filmed live at the 2019 Edinburgh International Book Festival, DeRay Mckesson talks to Lauretta Charlton, Race/Related editor of The New York Times, discussing his deeply-moving book, On the Other Side of Freedom, in which h…

I stand at the back of the queue, thinking, ‘When will this ever end?’ The more I think about it, the more hopeless I feel. And, as hope fades fear creeps in. The fear of being deported to my tormentors…